Brandon Newton (seated, center), a four-time individual state champ for the perennially successful Cedar Creek High golf team, has joined the Louisiana Tech University program. Helping welcome Newton on board with the Bulldogs were his parents, Tina (seated, left), father Joe (seated, right), brother Logan (standing, left) and Brian Mercer of the Trinity United Methodist Church of Ruston.

For Brandon Newton, few introductions will be required when he begins his collegiate golf career at Louisiana Tech University.

He has known the Bulldogs’ head coach (Jeff Parks) a long time and he’s played the program’s home course (Choudrant’s Squire Creek) more times than he can remember.

So for Newton, joining the Western Athletic Conference team provides a perfect fit to continue an outstanding career that was recently capped off by yet another individual and team championship at the high school level.

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